I like going out for a solid drink with good company, preferably somewhere which also has good music. I'm too old for house parties---no one my age wants to deal with the mess afterwards, better to let somebody clean it up who is paid to do so.

I used to party alot but the party bus slowed down in my late 20's and once I reached 30 I knew it was my stop....a 30yr old man has no business on the club dance floor or at house parties playing beer pong

In my early 20's I would party all night and be ready for a full days work on 2 hours sleep. There'd be times that my jobless friends would call me just as I was laying down for the night to tell me a party was popping off and I would say no at first then lay there a moment and realize that life is for the living as I threw off my blankets to get dressed

No. I've never been to a "party", going by my standard image of one, for more than 5 minutes, but just by that I can tell that I strongly dislike the atmosphere of the average party and find it unpleasant. Granted I was way younger than everyone there at the time so they probably tried talking to me like I was a baby (and then there's also the fact that I was really young of course), but I felt like I was surrounded by idiots, which is not a group I enjoy hanging out with. And I simply prefer quieter social gatherings with a smaller number of people anyways.

Maybe it's just a thing with where I live. Perhaps the more cultured individuals attend parties elsewhere.

Not really...and I'm at college right now. That isn't to say I haven't been to a few of them.

If I was to drink it would be alone, or perhaps at a wedding.

I don't go to parties, I would rather see a movie, play some DnD or game out, listen to music anything other than being near drunk obnoxious people.

Well I was invited to two 18th this week.

First one was great, it was mostly me just skulling home brew until I didn't know wtf was happening.

Second one was me with a bunch of people I'm not really friends with playing xbox.

But no I'm not usually the partying type.

I can relate

From 18-20(very early 20), I was pretty much all party, all the time. Anytime that I wasn't working, I'd be out partying. Of course, it uhhh, wasn't so much drinking really(though there were copious amounts of drinking going on, that just wasn't my thing). Nowadays though, I'm the old fuddy-duddy of the group. Don't drink, don't do anything else, don't do anything risky/stupid. Just stay at home with my wife and kids. LOL. Anytime I do visit my friends, if I actually crack open a beer, it's like a full-on parade in their. "OMG, He's drinking a beer! It's A MIRACLE".

Oh that was also my first time getting drunk last Saturday, good times.

I kinda like the idea of going out and having fun with other people. But they terrify me and I'm lazy, so add me to the "no" brigade.

i don't like being around crowds or groups of people that number more than four, so no. I do go to some parties or events sometimes though if only for the food, but some times its just not worth the awkward i got nothing to say to you lot thing.

I've never been to a party. However I don't like the idea of having to share my mind-altering substances with others so I'm good.

I used to go out to bars, go to parties, and socialize a lot. Started slowing down over the past few years...I can't recover and have myself together to get things done the next day like I used to. Now that I have a kid taking a morning to shake off a hangover is a rare luxury as well.

I've never been much for clubs...especially those with dance floors unless I'm dragged there (except maybe the kitschy cowboy bar down the street every once in a while). Don't quit going out and having fun at 30, though. Too young.

Depends. If you have kids, clubs/bars aren't a place for a parent. Fine to go to parties at friends house once in a while, but once you have kids your partying times need to be mostly put behind you. Even if I hadn't had my accident, I'd have quit drinking and doing other stuff once my first daughter was born anyways.

I use to party HARD at the local Iron Coffins MC clubhouse several years ago. I was good friends with the Prez and the Sergeant at Arms (my old neighbor). He moved and the clubhouse shut down a while later and moved somewhere else.

Then later there were those Biker pig roasts....at church. I actually REMEMBER having a good time then.

Now I prefer being out in the woods camping with an open fire with a few friends...and really don't like 'parties' that much except around Christmas; then I'm pretty much obliged to go.

But drinking and acting a fool? I'm done.

I remember a few parties at the clubhouse of one of our local 1% clubs. I had alot of fun back then, but I could tell there were a few nervous folks there who were afraid of touching anything there for fear of...of...I'd tell you more, but not on the open forums.

Hrm...I don't see anything wrong with a parent going to a bar every once in a while, but of course, it's pretty much impossible to do it often and still be a responsible parent. About half of my friends that are my age have one or more children and still mange to get out to a bar every now and then without incident. They're all excellent parents.

I get your drift there, but one that for sure you do not touch at a 1% club house is the exit door. The only one who touches the door is the Sergeant at Arms. If he is not around, you do NOT go through that door.

At least that's the way it was there. It meant big trouble....

I guess I should add...unless you were a member. Guests were strictly forbidden.

Pretty much the same, except we weren't allowed to touch the outside gate without permission first. One little tidbit I can tell, is the first time I went there, I noticed a sign on the wall, right next to the phone, warning about making phone calls from this location...

I don't dislike parties, but I'm a lot more comfortable with a small group of people.

I don't particularly enjoy getting drunk, but I'm open to other types of intoxication, occasionally.

I also don't understand bars and clubs, they're always so loud that I can't hear anything anyone is saying anyway, and I don't like to dance unless I'm in the company of people who I'm already comfortable with. Prices are also always exorbitant if you're buying from a club or bar, which encourages people to drink at home before going out. This, combined with a large binge drinking culture where I live, always seems to result in people getting into fights or becoming so disoriented that their friends need to physically carry them home.

People between the ages of 19-35 don't seem to be very happy where I live, and that translates into alcoholism and asshatery.

I guess my experiences are significantly different. My Wifes parents went out to the bar once or twice a week, didn't get back until 2 in the morning. Her Step-dad was abusive, [censored] her older sister, and pushed my wife down the stairs on several occasions(including once after she told them she was pregnant, right before she moved in with me). My best friends parents drank excessively, often spending money that should have been spent for food. Buddy was skin and bones until 18 and got out of the house, as were both his brothers and both his sisters as well. They'd have loud shouting arguments frequently, and would often hit him or his brothers. A couple other friends had very similar situations, all because their parents went out to the bar fairly regularly. Some of the worst parent's I've ever met.

I don't party. At all. Ever. I can hardly speak to my friends IRL, so that kind of makes this impossible for me.

A party with your friends? Abso-[censored]-lutely. Party with strangers? Parties with friends and strangers? Works.

Without parties, the shy little gamer I was wouldn't have grown out of his shell. Even still I keep that shell close, and ready to be used when I need to recharge, but once you've experienced a true party, rather than simply standing in it and observing, all will be clear.

Going out to bars has nothing to do with all that. You can drink at home, and burn just as much money on alcohol while doing so as you would in a bar. The misuse and abuse of alcohol is what causes that, not bars.

I know plenty of people who go to bars and don't drink anything at all.

Perhaps I should amend my statement to "Once you have children, you shouldn't get drunk anymore, and going to bars facilitates drinking in excess, so they should be avoided". Casual drinking of a few beers here and there, and maybe get drunk(not near your children), once a year or so(like, on your anniversary), is fine. But drinking in general should be limited once you have a little one relying on you, because it encourages you to do things that you wouldn't normally do.